Flower-pot.



No. 681,066. rammed Aug. 2o, |9o|.-

H. MILLINGAR.

FLowl-: PoT. (Application med May s, 1901.)`

(no mndel.)

l` Afro/mers t a specification.

UNITED STATES PATENT FECE".

HENRY MILLINGAR, OF MEROHANTVILLE, NEW JERSEY. i

FLOWER-POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 681,066, dated. August 20, 1901.

. Application filed May 8, 1901. Serial No. 59,328. (No model.)

` chantville, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Flower-Pot, of which the following is It is the object of my invention to provide 1 an improved flower-pot for temporary use. y ro The same is constructed of light or thin flexible material, preferably strips or sheets of `wood which have a peculiar form adapting proved {lower-pot.

l them tooverlap and formatapered pot. The

details of construction are as hereinafter described,and shown in the accompanying drawings,- in which-4- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my im- Fig. 2 is a plan view of the two parts composing the body of the pot, the same being extended latwise. Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The body of the pot is formed of two wooden pieces or sheets A and B, which are of like shape and connected by a detachable fastening a, applied at the center of the square portions h, forming the bottom of the pot. Each piece A and B has two enlarged end portions or wings c, whose sides are at an angle to each other and whose ends are parallel. The said wings c are thus trapezoidal in shape, gradually increasing in width from the central portion b to the outer end. This shape is highly important, since it enables the Wings c to overlap, as shown in Fig. l, so that the pot has the desired taper. Thus in making up the pot from the parts or pieces A and B, which may be shipped or stored in the dat, the wings c are bent upward and their edges overlapped and secured by wire or other fastenings d, as shown. Then a strip C of wood or some other suitable flexible material is applied as a binding around the parts A and B adjacent to their upper edge and secured by suitable fastenings.

What I claim is- As an improved article of manufacture,

the iiower-pot composed of two thin flexible sheets, having a square central portion and trapezoidal wings or end portions, which increase in width from the middle outward, their side edges being overlapped and secured together as shown and described.

HENRY MILLINGAR. Witnesses:

ARTHUR E. CRAIG, MINNESOTA B. CRAIG. 

